Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Predicted to enable chloride channel activity and structural molecule activity. Predicted to be involved in bicellular tight junction assembly and cell adhesion. Predicted to act upstream of or within chloride transport and monoatomic ion transmembrane transport. Predicted to be located in anchoring junction and membrane. Predicted to be part of chloride channel complex. Predicted to be active in bicellular tight junction and plasma membrane. Is expressed in several structures, including branchial arch; genitourinary system; gut; sensory organ; and surface ectoderm. Orthologous to human CLDN17 (claudin 17).